Today, we're excited to unveil the Aviary Extension..

Aviary provides a suite of creative online tools to help people create and improve upon photos, designs and audio clips. This Ning Extension allows you to edit photos directly inside the page. You can apply useful tweaks like cropping and red-eye reduction; edit the contrast, brightness and colors; add text to photos; and if youre feeling creative or playful you can add stickers as an overlay to put mustaches, hats and tons of other fun items directly onto the images of people in your photos.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, imagine how many more words you will share when confronted with fun pictures like this:

Even more useful and fun: You can use the Ning Aviary Extension to apply these types of transformations to your profile photos, if you wish.

Whenever you hover your mouse over photos you are able to edit, youll see an option for Photo Stickers & Effects. Clicking that link will start up Aviarys editor and encourage you to apply updates, transformations and filters to your photo. Once youve completed the changes you want to make, click on Save and the modified photo will be saved back to the network.